• Jump to main content
  • Home page
  • What's on
  • Site map
  • Search
  • About us
  • Freedom of Information
  • Complaints procedure
  • Privacy policy
  • Contact us
  • Access key details

National Museums Scotland

  • About us
  • Contact us
  • Accessibility
  • Venue hire
  • Home
Search
  • Our museums
  • What's on
  • Highlights
  • Kids
  • Learning
  • Collections & research
  • Making connections
  • Support us
  • Shop
  • National Museum
    • What's on
    • Plan your visit
    • Explore the galleries
    • Exhibitions
    • Past exhibitions
      • Extremes
      • Silver
      • Picasso: Fired with Passion
      • Pixar: 20 Years of Animation
      • Fonn 's Duthchas
      • Jean Muir: A Fashion Icon
      • Garden Detectives
      • Ballast
      • Salt of the Earth
      • Gifted
      • Iron Age gold
      • Meet Your Maker
      • Treasured
      • Shining Lights
      • A Passion for Glass
      • Lewis Chessmen: Unmasked
      • Behind the Scenes
      • 26 Treasures
      • Admiral Cochrane
      • Evolution's Missing Chapter
      • Fascinating Mummies
        • About the exhibition
        • Secrets of the Rhind Mummy
        • Three Pyramids game
        • Mummy movie vote
        • Mummies activity sheets
      • See Scotland by Train
      • A Sense of Place
      • Sounds Global
      • One Thousand Points of Light
      • Catherine the Great
      • Dr Livingstone, I presume?
      • Vikings!
    • Our new museum
    • School visits
    • Brave
    • Museum Explorer app
  • War Museum
  • Museum of Rural Life
  • Museum of Flight
  • Museum of Costume
  • Museums Collection Centre
Coffin of Amenhotep. Image © Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (Leiden, the Netherlands).

Fascinating Mummies

Fascinating Mummies showcased significant treasures from the world famous Egyptology collections of the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden.

Three Pyramids game

Fascinating Mummies

About the exhibition

Canopic chest

Secrets of the Rhind Mummy

Unwrapping a mummy

Activity sheets

Fascinating Mummies

Open: 11 February - 27 May 2012
Venue: Exhibition Gallery 1, Level 3, National Museum of Scotland

This exhibition is free to members - join us!

Online shop

Fascinating Mummies: Highlights of the ExhibitionExhibition Highlights book now available in our online shop 

Connect with us

  • Follow us on Twitter Twitter
  • Join our Flickr projects Flickr
  • Read about our Museums Blog
  • Find out more on Facebook Facebook

Keep in touch

Sign up for our regular e-newsletter for all the latest news and events.

Sign up

  • Contact us
  • Site map
  • Privacy policy
  • Press office
  • Current vacancies

Shop online

National Museums Scotland, Scottish Charity, No. SC 011130